Infantry fighting vehicles because of BMP - 1 is the product of the late 1960 s, China based on the generic type 86 infantry fighting vehicles, troops in the late 80 s to batch production equipment, and the cold war is a human history weapon special period of rapid development, which means that equipment time by 20 years of the same kind of equipment cannot withstand the baptism of time, The type 86 infantry fighting vehicle was an embarrassment when it was already outfitted. Due to the shortcomings of type 86 infantry fighting vehicle, such as poor protection performance and insufficient firepower performance, China began to develop a new generation of infantry fighting vehicle --ZBD-04 infantry fighting vehicle in the 1990s